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of all the tenauntes of the seyd Manor as well fre as bond or 

 customery and all landes tenementes or holdes of all the seyd customery 

 tenauntes of the seyd Manor or woodes and vnderwoodes wyth thappur. 

 tenaunces growyng in or apon the seyd Manor and all the demayne 

 landes then in the handes of any of theyr tenauntes demysed for terme of 

 lyfe yeres or at wyll wyth the rentes of the same to the seyd Abbott and 

 Covent and theyr Successors except and reseruyd To haue and hold the seyd 

 Manor and parsonage together with the seruyces of the customery tenauntes 

 and other the premyssez / except before exceptyd / to the seyd Rychard and 

 Margaret Ambrose Edmond Isabell and Gyles from the feast of seynt Michell 

 tharchaungell nexte ensuyng the date of the seyd indenture for terme of theyr 

 lyves and the longyst lyuer of them / Yeldyng therefore yerely to the seyd 

 Abbott and Covent and theyr successors for the seyd Manor wyth thappur- 

 tenaunces ix^'. and for the seyd parsonage, xijli. and also payng to the seyd 

 Abbot and Covent and theyr successors or to the Chaumberleyn of the seyd 

 Monastery for the tyme beyng for the tythes to thoffyce of the seyd Chaum- 

 berleyn belongyng xl s . of laufull money of Englond to be payed yerely at 

 the feastes [of J Thannunciacion of oure lady and saynt Mychell Tharchaungell 

 by euyn porcions And yt was further couenauntyd and agreyd by the seyd 

 dede indentyd that the seyd Rychard Margaret Ambrose Edmond Isabell 

 and Gyles shold haue and perceyue yerely xx loodes of wood for parte of 

 theyr fuell to be takyn of and in the wood of Bradon by thassygnement and 

 ouer syght of the woodward there for the tyme beyng at the costes of cuttyng 

 downe and cariage of the seyd Rychard Margaret Ambrose, Edmond Isabell 

 and Gyles, duryng the seyd terme and the resydue of theyr necessary fuell 

 to be taken and perceyued yerely of bowes and loppyng of trees of and apon 

 the demayne landes of the seyd Manor yf yt myght be convenyently there 

 taken And also the seyd Abbott and Covent by theyr seyd dede dyd make 

 theyr laufull attorneys John Frankelyn clerk then vycar of the parysshe 

 churche of Puryton aforeseyd and John Precy to delyuer possessyon and 

 seysen of and in the premyssez to the seyd Rychard Margarett Ambrose 

 Edmond Isabell and Gyles accordyng to theffect of the seyd indentur / 

 and they delyueryd seysed [sic] therof accordyngly as by the seyd dede 

 indentyd amonges other thynges more playnly apereth. Byforce wherof the 

 seyd Rychard Pulley and Margarett and other before namyd entred into the 

 premyssez and were therof seysed in theyr demeane as of frehold And so 

 beyng therof seysed the seyd Rychard Pulley dyed And sythen the seyd 

 Margarett Ambrose Edmond and Gyles be also deceassed and your seyd 

 oratryce oonly survyued and maryed the seyd Benett Jeye / Byforce wherof 

 your seyd orators entred into the premysses in the right of the seyd Isabell 

 and were and yett be therof seysed in theyr demeane as of frehold in the 

 right of the seyd Isabell for terme of her lyfe byforce of the seyd indentur 

 and lease and haue occupyed and enyoyed the same peacybly by the space of 

 iij yeres and more / And so yt ys moost drad souerayn lord that the xxixth 

 daye of January last past [29th Jan., 1547-8J oon Sir Edmond Bridges knyght 

 who hath obteyned the reuercion of the premysses to hym and theyres males 

 of his body James More John Bradeley otherwyse Tayler Gabryell Rede and 

 other ryotous persons to your oratourz vnknowen to the nombre of xij persons 



